is preparing to oppose it because of the prospect of infringement of civil rights here in the u.k. an ongoing story thanks very much indeed. in london. the painstaking search for peace in colombia sees the latest round of talks between the government and falk rebels begin on wednesday negotiations come in with the deadliest military raid against the opposition since talks began in october the colombian president says an agreement must be reached by next november at the latest and has vowed to keep up military operations he says if the rebels disarm they will be given a path into politics you're an exclusive interview to water your top official admitted they want peace with being forced to fight for. human how enough are gravel some government officials are holding talks trying to hammer out a peace deal letting america's fiercest drive also and their force attempts to put an end to the fifty years of conflict this has claimed more than half a million lives and the sole woman at the negotiating table is dutch fire turtle

and yet no meyer she left her alone to join fired ten years ago to fight what she calls social justice and has become a symbol of their revolution struggle that is spoke exclusively to our t.v. in the first t.v. interview since the new talks launched we have not taken the arms because we wanted we have to because the colombian state and the united states imperialism have a blight compelled us to do so that's a that's one very important thing to keep in mind. we as an armed organization have always wanted dialogue we have always wanted peace we have always asked for the prospects for success during the negotiations in her honor mediated by cuba and norway a fragile these saturday the colombian army launched a bombing offensive killing twenty rebels this was fired in a unilateral cease fire and then it told me that with people being killed for their views it's unfair to blame them for it. people who are in colombia want to fight

for ideas different than the liberal ideas are killed so how is it possible to participate in politics if people who have other ideas are killed and that's the reason that they are struggling along that's the reason why we are still fighting the not told me far it is not supported by the other latin american countries they spied such claims from the west and also commented on scandal cost when your diary was founded by the colombian army and was made public gets the full interview here it's coming your way on wednesday. still to come here in germany true because i'm going to merkel yet another german chancellor look at what her reelection would mean for the eurozone. plus the growing splits in us society with an online profile separate of attracting more than a million. who want you all to. business with katie.

she's here with me in the studio so i understand that charlie has no overtake in the u.s. as the leading trading partner in the world is probably no surprise really we've all witnessed the pace of the country over the years but we're going to be looking at what's behind the great in the business bulletin and also the pitfalls of potential ones there are ahead that's all coming up after the break. if you're passing through rushes to veer region you really can. write thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land and enterprising local so the fruits of the forest by the side of nearly every road. such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunter as. you know he has been hunting for more than

thirty years and works for a company providing expeditions for tourists this season ducks are on the menu of. things a successful duck under a. lot of silence which means that i need to be very quiet i'm not going to write in the. office. but when you've been in the business as long as he has the birds don't stand much chance. there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive but environmentalists are fighting back the heart of just us forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find

a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups who've been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. and this is where i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get up close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents for the next generation will come here. using the old awards as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf

cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's an important part of the world's development and a major factor in the success of a project which has seen more than twenty generations of cubs grow up here it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolfs reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication i mean that we file and remains a place where visitors can truly understand the call of the wild. hello there welcome to business dreams of becoming the next james bond winning formula one or even designing your own fashion line maybe on a typical aspiration list in most countries but here in russia jobs the people

dream about after all more modest are going to the latest survey almost half of the russian population aspire to work for the biggest state run company gas problem so let's cross over now to the business staff to talk with dmitri medvedev hello eighty eight has so tell us kasparov the place to be is that well apparently yes according to an opinion poll by the arm which is the national opinion poll agency forty four percent of respondents want to be with gas problems is actually a major improvement on the previous years a representation every other russian basically wants to work for the gas giant thirty three percent two thousand and nine rosneft in second place twenty nine percent people wanting to work there and the biggest state banks burbank is finishing this top three twenty five percent of russians are eager to get on the lead this payroll that's what we have said to me why that's the burning question

why do people want to work for these states giant corporations well if i had to answer with just one why that would be obviously stability because this kind of reflect that russians want to feel secure with their jobs these three companies of course have a huge involvement of the state in the. they have big time with the government and therefore in case of reputation of a crisis they would probably not go belly up whereas if you work for private companies you never know what is going to happen but actually there is another opinion from ben arras who is the editor in chief of business new europe east as basically it reflects a transition period that russians labor market is in and actually his comparison is pretty radical as to what he had. in the ninety's they did a survey of schoolchildren about what they wanted to be when they grew up and the little girl said that they wanted to be hard currency person sees. things moved on

and you know the comfort of the economy is functioning albeit not as well as it should be hopefully the next stage will be you will see more and more companies private companies emerging like you and. wimbledon or whoever which will then change and see these a dynamic companies that offer better working conditions pays good and will change again i mean we're sort of halfway down the road at the moment you know. so it's pretty harsh in that dmitri i've got to say what positive isn't saying so we end well yeah i mean ben just said i can't really agree with that because i don't think i've ever heard any child say in the ninety's that they wanted to be a currency prostitute other they didn't know the first word of that word combinational the second word or if they didn't know what that meant they probably wouldn't want to be that but he is correct that sorry that the criminal world was kind of romanticized in mass culture in the ninety's so kind of people felt

some kind of appeal from that but anyway that's coming back to our present times what we do see on t.v. in the news including business news here on r.t. is actually these three big names gas from burbank so therefore people hear about these companies that are most advertised in a way so therefore they want to. basically well i hope it was a case of they didn't know what it meant to move on now with this opinion poll do you way think that in reality it reflects the state of the labor market at the moment do you think people are running for shelter or is a case of running away from chaos well i actually don't think about much reflects the state of labor markets but it's short because what we are seeing right now we have to remember this is an opinion poll of course so it's based on people on the street not unemployed people looking for for another job right now we are seeing the unemployment rate standing at a healthy value of five point three percent this is twice as less as the

unemployment in the point rate in the euro zone for example more than eleven percent there and actually if you look at the headhunting websites like like you're super job all you they have different data they say mostly people are looking for jobs are young people just like the rest of the world eighty percent students mostly and most sorts of jobs are accountants driver and lawyer whereas most offer jobs are sales manager. other types of managers and secretaries and also if you look at super job are you there top three companies mentioned bank which is a private banks are not a state company who go which is globally a very popular boyle heights. company and b. like the mobile provider so basically i wouldn't say that this opinion poll reflects the state of labor market but it does reflect what people feel secure about. to meet remember i thank you very much indeed insecurity you could argue is

the most important thing i can let's move on them a check out the markets we can see starting with wall street stocks are fluctuating gains and losses as american leaders prepare for more crucial budget talks and its anticipation surrounding those stocks that leave the european stocks flat. in tuesday's session as investors stay on the fence keeping a close eye stateside as debates continue between democrats and republicans on the so-called fiscal cliff now the common currency is climbing steadily really ever since the great buyback deal which calls the initial optimism and it has continued from there where the russian ruble finished the session stronger against the dollar but low against the strengthening ruble in moscow the markets finished up the session in negative territory as you can see just there under a percent but the r.t.s. and the mice and the fact that oil prices are going style there isn't really helping matters the you guys investors have always keep a close eye on lies. and moving on china has a posse u.s.

as the leading trading partner in the world and done it in just five years the two biggest economies in the world have now switch places in terms of trade back in two thousand and six the u.s. was the largest for one hundred twenty seven countries versus seventy for china the latest figures show china is now the largest one hundred twenty four countries with just seventy six for the u.s. but the longevity of china's pace of growth has now been called into question and i asked yana from standard chartered what the future holds for the economy. of course china has actually. i believe the u.s. in terms of trading a while ago and this is imminent with china's g.d.p. growth and certainly we believe that certainly within the next decade or so china will become the top economy in the world and what does this mean for china it

doesn't mean that it's even more important for china to now transform its economy from an investment led economy towards a more consumption driven economy because the impacts for the total population of china will be much more positive compared to in vestments less economy to me what is actually behind this growth. well there are several factors the main driver to just here is that investment is still the major driver of china more or less fifty percent of g.d.p. is coming from investment growth the other. drivers of growth of course is consumption and exports. investment specially government state led investment still very much dominates china's growth of course a lot of this is catch up course we have calculated that given that three

provinces in china's smaller provinces can grow towards the capita income levels of tier one cities such as beijing shanghai. we can see at least seven percent growth in china for at least five more years and even more if tier three economies are able to reach the per capita incomes of tier one cities now you'll talk about growth in the next five years or so but a lot of people have been talking about. heartland we have got an aging population to do with wages are beginning to rise what do you think are the problems that will face the chinese economy in the future because they are around the corner on the horizon some would argue there are many facets to problems facing china and this comes of course with china's rising dominance in the international arena

first of all china faces many social problems and the recent financial crisis has highlighted a lot of these for example the unemployment situation of course the official unemployment data does not capture migrant workers so really getting these migrant workers to be included in china's. growth and transform ation into a much more market consumption as economy is very important and the other problem facing china of course is environmental and you know china is of course addressing some of this these issues certainly from the new twelfth five year plan we can see a lot of emphasis is now put on green grace really addressing environmental issues now finally the very very major problem facing china which probably needs

addressing really soon is reform in terms of constitutional reform having the right rules of law will benefit china in the longer term and without this i really don't think that china will sustain its current pace of growth for much longer than ten ten years or so. i'll be back in just under two hours with the next business bulletin but more news will build all to state. at. the ride that takes your breath away to eating across the sky as it was a mohnish could you know the biggest salt lake in europe and more than two hundred

species of birds but also it is them are on the verge of extinction on these islands in the south of russia they find shelter before my grade twelve a part of the world. here we see the great white pelican and several species of the tao mation pelican which are both in the red dates of birth but there are only forty to fifty couples left in the region your palate can use as well as other species at the monish gugino feed on faith these birds are waiting for their parents to bring them food the best cash for them is in a small area is a lake with the war is relatively fresh as fish cannot survive in the salty a part of the money and the lakes getting salt every year they manage to do lowe's and all to fish oil reservoir which has failed in the nineteen fifties in the areas hot climate the evaporates quickly and the local stores natural saltiness takes over just for the ports the ports don't much use there are relatively few water sources here some water comes from the dawn river and some from the cuban during

the last three to four years we've had a really severe drought can do to this drought we are practically standing on the bottom of this lake has been falling every year the majority of birds have been retreating as well or they nestle in new orleans. of birds the drying out of the lake cool so threaten one of the world's biggest populations. they leave a one of them on and on and next destination. there are more than four hundred is the animals here the air is a protected wildlife reserve it's a place of serene peace and calm in recent decades dozens of canals have been dug around here to cultivate the local staps broad grassy plains this may be useful for humans but it does badly hit many species as the animals here for instance saia

enter lopes which are extremely shy was scared away only to be killed in the hundreds of thousands by poachers folklore here believes the substance found in their horns can cure impotence just some forty years ago there were more than two million living in asia and they lead nowhere else in the world but now people brought the species to the brink of extinction so this region is be reaching alive for thousands of years but now i know relatively short space of time it's my been diversity of creatures is second and from it's by man and nature itself. if you know it here in the news continues now angela merkel has been reelected head of germany's christian democratic union with

a record of ninety seven point nine percent approval she's now hoping to would a third term as chancellor in next year's general elections german politicians definite told my colleague would say he believes germany doesn't have any alternative to the. in crisis times people always flock around the strong leaders. there is neither in the union in the christian democratic union challenge or nor is there anybody from the opposition so far who is a strong enough personality to really challenge her so michael is trying to tie the e.u. to a fiscal union if michael is really led to for a third term how much will her european economic policy change i mean will it become more aggressive she seems to have a lot of weight since she is the most popular person at the moment. yeah it will not become more aggressive but it will be felt more strongly because this fiscal union which is imposed from central bureaucratic brussels will force.

the people to accept things that they otherwise wouldn't accept so it will become and so governments and parliaments will lose its sovereign budget rights and that is unbelievable for a confederation of states as europe it is so if she is reelected will she be seeking to firmly establish germany as the center of the euro politically as well as economically no i don't think so i think she will still seek the support of all other european partner countries however the central forces of brussels will become stronger and that is generally a bad. development it would be much better the sovereign states the confederation what have its proper parliaments to decide upon these things instead of somebody in the central in brussels americans and hundreds of thousands of clicks internet

petitions saying they no longer want their states to be part of the us going to porn or investigates why a growing number of u.s. nationals are eager to rip the stars and stripes apart. for that. for two hundred years after the former colonies won the right to determine its own best of the. test a perfect thing for you to move forward. four weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from the so-called perfecting union a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael toggled. see independence as a symbol may twentieth

a consistent ones the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the the debt this country has with the growing disunion among in the among the people they can't last forever and that's the lesson of history big empires always collapse in their own white secession supporters like bernard first some say washington's weight of growing debt and loose wars government intrusion and a broken immigration system has become a bipartisan destructive force is beyond reform you can't reform that federal government whether it's the republicans in charge or obama basically is the republicans are just as bad as far as we're concerned they're corrupt and are out of touch in southern former confederate states like north carolina culture and social issues play a big role for those like harold cruz who believes the u.s. is too big and thus destined to fail and the south general. were

different country already and the united states we simply need our own government we have different values different belief systems critics have dismissed secessionists as disgruntled voters angry over president obama's second term however in the two thousand and eight presidential election obama became the first democrat in more than thirty years to win north carolina a red state turned blue with the promise of change four years later tens of thousands of voters in the very same state believe they'd be better off on their own us to the average american the things they believe in and they're tired of the endless wars and here we are talking about invading iran now i can't think of anything more the white house meanwhile promises to review and issue an official response to all petitions with twenty five thousand or more. or signatories at least seven states fit that category that we used to be on the interstate driving

along at fifty five miles an hour by ourselves with secession as a goal and now we're being passed on both sides and lanes by people going faster than we are and it's amazing because here we were thought to be radical fifteen or ten years ago and now we're mainstream. a mainstream movement to move apart marina port nial artsy. that brings up that for the moment the top stories and more news coming away in just a couple of minutes stay with us live here this is in moscow. wealthy british style.

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